Torrent Site Pirate Bay Informs Users About The Existence Of The Monero Mining Software

Torrent website The Pirate Bay is looking into strategies to ramp up its mining operations. By taking advantage of visitors’ processing power it will be able hit the set target. It was recently that it added a disclaimer to its Homepage. The disclaimer outlined conditions to all CPU owners.

Current state of affairs

By any given user choosing to enter TPB, he or she gave a confirmation that he/she had no problem with the mining being conducted. The disclaimer went on to say that those in disagreement leave page with immediate effect. It also gave users the option of installing an adBlocker.

It was a few months ago that that the site’s administrators made a statement through a blog. They revealed about their plans to carry out tests on monero Javascript miner. The target was to face out all ads. A lot of people thought of the development as a controversial move by what they have always known to be a controversial website.

Quite a significant number of national governments have spoken in the past spoken about it. They have been specific in outlining the role it plays in online file sharing.

Complaints have been launched from time to time by CFPU users. Most of them are uncomfortable with the way their computing power is utilized.

The latest form of cryptojacking

They say a huge deal of it is harnessed in the mining of XMR. It was in the previous year that Bleeping Computer gave its report. According to it, Pirate Bay had restored the feature.

The approach being employed by torrent site according to experts is some sort of intelligent cryptojacking. It is indeed a cryptojacking undertaking, but they make one cooperate voluntarily.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is one of the many organizations that are resorting to Coinhive open-source software .They are utilizing it as a source of revenue. But it is worth noting that the funds are usually used for philanthropic purposes.

There are other cases of cryptojacking which experts are thinking of as being more malicious. One of them occurred this spring and reports indicate it was directed to websites running the Drupal content management system.